Welcome

- [Voiceover] Hello and welcome to Illustrator CC Essential Training. My name is Justin Seeley, and I'm a staff author here at Lynda.com. In this course, I'm going to start you off slow by going through some of the basics of Illustrator like creating documents for print and web projects, and we'll also dive into creating shapes like rectangles and circles. Once we've got those basics taken care of, we'll jump right into the fun stuff like creating complex shapes using Illustrator's Shape Builder tool. I'll also be walking you through working with bitmap images in Illustrator as well, and I'll go through my personal workflow for tracing both photos and line art using the Image Trace panel.

Finally, we'll go through outputting your artwork for both print and web. And I'll also show you how to use your Illustrator artwork in other Creative Cloud applications like Photoshop and InDesign. In short, this course is a soup to nuts overview of all things Illustrator. And by the end, you should have all the tools and knowledge you need to create rich and engaging artwork using this application. So if you're ready, let's jump right in and get started.